You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isgrif. That's David French. I'm in Texas. He's in Nebraska.

David, I feel like my fajitas are going to beat your, I don't know corn. Are you eating corn?

I don't know what I'm eating. I'm going to have dinner in like four hours or whatever. And it's got to have some steak.

I mean, like you can't be in this part of the Midwest without some good steak.

So, but yeah, no, no corn. I'm in an arboridam. There's just like a ton of trees.

That's beautiful. I am podcasting from my childhood bedroom.

It pretty much looks like I ceased existing on the planet shortly after graduating college.

So, everything here is very 20 years old, but say.

Well, and I'm at a place called L-I-E-D Lodge. And we've literally talked in the green room for several minutes about how you pronounce L-I-E-D.

And so, maybe that can be one of the pronunciation disputes that listeners resolve. I'm thinking it's lead and not lied and not lied.

David, we've learned on this podcast that whatever your instinct is, that's probably the exact opposite direction.

So, I now think it's lied because you think it's lead. But we have more pronunciation things to discuss because we have several Supreme Court cases from last week to go to.

But David, you've persuaded me that we're not going to start with vegetables here. We're going to start with the big honken.

Is it a tea bone? I mean, this is a big steak. We're going to dive right into the Alabama redistricting case.

Yeah, this is like a porterhouse. This is one of those steaks that if you eat it all in one sitting, you don't eat steaks again.

You don't have to pay for a steak for a year. That kind of steak.

Unlike the Supreme Court, which I think based on this opinion is going to be waiting into a lot more voting rights than cases.

So I hope they like porterhouse.

All right, let me just set this up for everyone. Alabama in the 2020 census had a 5% growth in population, not enough to change the number of congressional districts that they have, but enough to change some of the balance of where population growth was.

They have seven congressional districts. The black population in this state is 27% the voting age black population of the state, 25.9%.

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